Plate 28: Storrs

'The first of us was Ronald Storrs, Oriental Secretary of the Residency, the most brilliant Englishman in the Near East, and the deepest, though his eyelids were heavy with laziness, and his eyes dulled by care of self, and his mouth made unbeautiful by hampering desires. None the less Storrs sowed what we reaped, and was always the first and greatest of us. His shadow would have covered our work and British policy in the East like a cloak, had he been able to deny himself, to leave the world, and prepare his mind and body with the sternness of an athlete for a great fight.'